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w3schools: Chrome Adoption Growing Fast
Posted on 12. Jul, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 
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Back in January, I remarked about how quickly Chrome browser had been gaining share of the early adopter market. Back then, 10% of those who used the w3schools.com web developer site were browsing with Chrome. Now six months later that figure has jumped to over fifteen percent. Here is the month by month stats for 2010.
Those growth numbers are pretty impressive, don’t you think? They are markedly different from other browsers, whose numbers do move nearly as fast as Chrome.
So the data here tells one that those who develop for the web are increasingly interested in at least checking out what Chrome is all about. Recently Chris Blizzard from Mozilla told Gizmodo that they aren’t afraid of Chrome, and the data here suggests he’s right about that notion: Firefox has not lost any share to Chrome, it has mostly come at Microsoft’s expense.
NetApplications is reporting that worldwide use of Chrome is somewhere around 7%, so those who are using it to develop and otherwise create for the web are double that amount. That seems pretty logical to me.
w3schools: Chrome Has Surpassed Ten Percent Share
Posted on 04. Feb, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey. 11 Comments
The web developer-focused w3schools releases browser statistics every month. Recently, they published their figures for January. Fueled by the movement of Chrome 4 into a stable version along with the increased media coverage of Chrome OS and Google’s competition with the other tech titans, Chrome has moved past the ten percent share mark, registering a 10.8% share which is up a solid point from December, at 9.8%.
Mind you, w3schools.com is not any sort of official standard for browser usage. However, the 9 million monthly users of the site are forward-thinking technologically minded people who are using the site to find the latest and greatest in terms of web development resources. With that being said, there is no doubt that w3schools caters more towards early adopters of technology, but the fact that Chrome browser is now in use for over ten percent of those looking for web development resources shows that some other browsers are going to begin to slowly get sqeezed out of their share of the market.
And to make sure that these are not the only statistics for this article, Netmarketshare is reporting that Chrome browser usage is at 5.22% in January, up from 4.63% in December. These stats are supposedly representative for the entire web, although there must be some give or take considering the web’s global audience. Regardless, you can read about their methodology for measuring stats here.
For January, thechromesource had 44.1% that used Firefox, 34.5% users with Chrome, 9% with Safari and 6.6% with Internet Explorer.
